Question

What is the poet’s familiar ache and why does it return? [ my mother at sixty six]

Answer 1

Answer:

not much he felt happy...

Explanation:

FELT LIKE EVERYONE...NO MUCH FEELING FRIENDS

Answer 2

Answer:

The poet is pained at the ageing and decaying of her mother. The fear is that with ageing comes decay and death. The sight of her old mother’s ‘ashen’ and corpse-like face arouses “that old familiar ache” in her heart. Her childhood fear returns. She is also pained and frightened by the idea that she may have to face all these things herself.